Panggezhuang Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in the western side of
Daxing District
Daxing District () is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city. It borders the Beijing districts of Tongzhou to the east/northeast, Fangshan to the west, Fengtai to the northwest, Chaoyang to the northeast, and the Hebe ...
,
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It shares border with Beizangcun Town and
Tiangongyuan Subdistrict to the north, Weishanzhuang Town to the east,
Lixian and
Yufa Towns to the south, Gongcun and
Liulihe Towns to the west. In 2020, it had a population of 74,912.
This town's name Panggezhuang () is referring to the early settlers of this region who were from the
Pang
Pang may refer to:
Places
*Siem Pang District, Cambodia
*Pangnirtung or Pang, an Inuit hamlet on Baffin Island, Canada
*Fo Pang (Chinese: 火棚), an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong
*Pang, a hamlet in Leh district, Jammu and Kashmir, India
*Pang, Mal ...
family.
History
Administrative divisions
So far in 2021, Panggezhuang Town was made up of 60 subdivisions, of those 6 were
communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
, 53 were
villages, and 1 was a development area:
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Daxing District, Beijing
Towns in Beijing
Daxing District